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J. 8v A. SIMONEAU.

YARN SBPARATINGAND WARPING MACHINE. No. 351,536. Y Q Petented oet. ze,1886.

ATTORN EY UNITED STATES .PATENT @einen JOSEPH SIMONEAU AND ADELARDSIMONEAU, OF THREE RIVERS, MASS.

vYARN. SEPARATING AND WARPING MACHINE.'

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 351,536, dated October26, 1886.

Application Bled December 7, 1885. Serial No. 184,903. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that we, JOSEPH SIMONEAU and ADELARD` SIMONEAU, citizens,respectively, ofthe Dominion of Canada and of the United States,residing at Three Rivers, in the county of Hampden and State ofMassachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in YarnSeparating and Warping Machines, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to warping-machines, the object being to providean improved machine through which the Warp yarns are passed from theskeins onto the warp-beam, whereby the threads are properly separatedand so guided onto the beam that they are delivered from t-he latterwithout entanglement or breakage.

In'the drawing forming part of this specification is illustrated inperspective view a warping-machine cons tructed according to ourinvention, and in which are shown the courses of the warp-threads fromsaid reel to said beam, a raddle7 having one end broken off being shownin operative position between the reel and the adjoining roll.l

In the drawing, m is a yarn-reel of ordinary 4 construction, supportedon the standards 2 2,

on which it rotates, and a indicates skeins of yarn on said reel.

B is a standard located about midway between the yarn-reel m and thewarp-beam h, having a vertical groove, K, in one side thereof, as shown.A roller-support, c, having a leg, v, which ts said vgroove in thestandard B, is secured to the latter by the hand-screw 8, the latterbeing adapted to be screwed into different holes in the standardV B, toprovide for raising or lowering the roller-support c, and securing it atdifferent points of elevation. The said support c'V extends horizontallyeach side of the roller-frame e, the latter consisting of a bar securedto the top of standard B, `and having each end turned up and grooved, asshown, to receive the end of the shaft of aroll- -er,-z, in thedirection of the warp-threads above, and said horizontal extensions areprovided with grooves s s, as shown, and in one thereof is supported theroller-frame f, con-4 structed substantially like said frame e, eX-cepting that it has ,thereon the arin 6, which fits one of said groovcdextensions of the support c', in which it slides, to 'allow of movingthe roller, which is hung in frame f, toward and from that which is hungin frame e. A hand-screw, 7, passing through the side of support c',against said arm 6, is to secure frame f and the'roller therein in anydesired position.

A roller-frame, d, having an arm, 4, thereon, and grooved sides toreceive the shaft ends of a roller, substantially like frames erand f,has its saidarm 4L fitted into one of said grooved extensions of thesupport c', and is adjustable thereon like to said frame f, to perm-itof inoving the roller which is hung in it toward and from that one inframe e.

A hand-screw, 5, serves the same purpose relative to arm 4 on frame dthat the said hand-screw 7 serves relative to arm 6 on frame f. Saidframe d is provided with two bracketarms, c, each havinga slotin itsupper end to receive the raddle b, and keep its teeth in engagement withthe yarns when the loperator desires to stop using it. The warp-beam his supported on` tivo standards, 3 3, and is rotated by the belt z, orother suitable means, to wind the Warp-yarns thereon. The yarn-reel m,the three rolls z z e, hung in the frames d e.

f, and the warp beain h, are arranged parallel to each other. The saidframesd ef,with the rolls a hung therein, are made adjustable verticallyon the standard B by the movement of the support c, to accommodate theheight of said rolls to that of the beamjrand reel m, and

the rolls-hung in the frames d and f are made, as above described,adjustable toward and from the roller in frame e, in order to increaseor decrease the angle of inclination of the yarns between the roller inframe e and thoseon each side of it, it being desirable to run ine yarnsat aless degree of inclination than coarser ones, in order to obviatethe danger of breakingsaid fine ones. g

The operation of ourimprovementsis as follows: The skeins a of yarn tobe Warped are placed on the reel m, anda yarn is drawn from each of saidskeins and carried over and under the rolls z, as shown in the drawing,and is attached to the beam h, each yarn crossing that adjoining itbetween the rolls each side of the center roll and the latter, as shown,`whereby iOO la i, l

each strand of yarn is compelled to follow a eertain Course from thereel to the beam, and to become wound upon the latter in such aregu larmanner that when the beam is placed nin the loom the warp is deliveredtherefrom Withoutbecoming entangled and broken. W'hile the yarn is beingdrawn from the reel m the operator uses the radd1e,in the ordinary way,for perfectly Separating the yarns or preventing any entanglementbetween them before they pass on tothe rolls z, the latter being alloweda certain freedom of vertical motion in said slots in frames d e f, toaccommodate them to any varying strain there may be on the yarns.

What we claim as our invention is- A yarn separating and warping machineconsisting of the combination, with a yarn-reel and a warp-beam, 7L, ofthe standard B intermediately between said reel and beam, theroller-support c', having the leg o, fitting the groove K in saidstandard7 wherein it is adjustable vertically, the hand-serew 8,temporarily connecting said leg to Said standard, the rollenframes d ef, supported. on said rollersupport, and three rolls, one hung in eachof 25

